Monthly Archives: March 2010

Writing + iPad joy + Seattle PHP meetup

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Well it has been a while since my last update and for good reason, as i mentioned we are moving the corporate site and that should be ready on Thursday in time for the PHP meetup where i will be presenting. With the development side currently rolling, it seems that the conteside is going pretty well, and i will be a guest writer at a couple of places.

The first place that i am actively writing at is mynetlet.com a interesting, community based site, where you can keep up to date with the latest news and buzz that is going on in the tablet pc market. Continue reading →

Chance for free iPad from Digg + new iPhone app

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Well i guess that is has been long overdue but today Digg actually announced they have finally released their iPhone app, and it is available for download.

Although it may seem that this is a bit late, the news announcement on the official company blog also stated that generous guys at Digg would also be giving away a chance at a FREE iPad too! Continue reading →

Washington vs West Virginia Sweet 16 matchup free online!

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Being a fan in the state of Washington isn’t what it used to be, the Sonics are gone, the Seahawks were terrible and the list goes on.

But the UW vs West Virginia Sweet 16 matchup in Syracuse sure looks like it may be a reason to celebrate. To add to that the UW were even the early featured on the NCAAB section of Yahoo! Sports. With the football looking like it is back on track too this could become a regular fixture one hopes. Continue reading →

Good cover letter writing tips by smashingmagazine.com

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The Smashing Book + New Glasses

Image by Racum via Flickr

I think everyone has heard or been part of a “What is an example of a good cover letter” before and unless your a recruiter or something it may not be completely obvious.

Today was i was going along my daily routine looking at some blogs i stumbled upon this article at smashingmagazine.com about writing a good cover letter. This article is of particular interest because it has feedback directly from companies that advertise on major web oriented job sites like krop.com, Continue reading →

Blogging a real career in 2010

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The last thing that you may hear when you think of blogging is, “Hmmmm this could actually be a career.”  According to the reliable wikipedia a blog is defined as,

A blog (a contraction of the term “web log“)[1] is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.

So essentially is the act (continuous) of of creating new content and adding to your weblog with frequent posts. Now with that said there are a couple of questions that arise:

  1. What does “Frequent” entail?
  2. Why does how frequent i write matter? Continue reading →

Free Premium quality WordPress Podcasting Plugin

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As another way to go grow and offer different types of media to keep your blog going. Podcasting is a definite way to add more dynamic content, and now you can with the free, premium quality WordPress Podcasting Plugin.

The project was initially developed by Ronald Heft over at  but it is now maintained by TSG. I think that there are currently two really good and free choices when it comes to adding multi-media content to your site, with the TSG podcasting plugin being one and the Blubrry Powerpress Podcast Plugin. Unfortunately it seems that the old podpress plugin that used to be an option isnt really going to be going any further. Continue reading →

WordPress Elastic themes generator from GSOC 09 is intriguing

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A few days ago (Sunday 21st march) on the WordPress facebook blog they released this post about the Google Summer of code (GSOC)and WordPress 3.0 sneek peeks. The Official release by WordPress where there are a couple of announcements, but the one of particular interest that was from the GSOC 09 by Daryl Koopersmith, and is called Elastic Themes.

The WordPress elastic themes generator

The generator can best be desribed as, Continue reading →